Glossary

Theories, schools, and approaches

 * [|Theories of communication]
 * [|Agenda-setting theory]
 * [|Biosemiotics]
 * [|Content analysis]
 * [|Community structure theory]
 * [|Conversation analysis]
 * [|Critical theory]
 * [|Cues-filtered-out theory]
 * [|Cultivation theory]
 * [|Cultural studies]
 * [|Cybernetics]
 * [|Decision downloading]
 * [|Diffusion of innovations]
 * [|Dramatisming]
 * [|Elaboration likelihood model]
 * [|Ethnomethodology]
 * [|Framing]
 * [|Hermeneutics]
 * [|Hypodermic needle model]
 * [|Heuristic-Systematic Model]
 * [|Hyperpersonal Model]
 * [|Information theory]
 * [|Knowledge gap hypothesis]
 * [|Media ecology]
 * [|Narrative paradigm]
 * [|Network analysis]
 * [|Nonviolent Communication]
 * [|Opinion leadership]
 * [|Political economy]
 * [|Priming]
 * [|Relational dialectics]
 * [|Scheme]
 * [|Social learning theory]
 * [|Social construction of reality]
 * [|Social Identity model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE)]
 * [|Social Information Processing theory]
 * [|Social Penetration Theory]
 * [|Spiral of silence]
 * [|Strength of Weak Ties]
 * [|Structuralism]
 * [|Symbolic interactionism]
 * [|Technology acceptance model]
 * [|Theory of cognitive dissonance]
 * [|Theory of Planned Behavior]
 * [|Theory of Reasoned Action]
 * [|Third-person effect]
 * [|Two-step flow of communication]
 * [|Uses and gratifications]
 * [|Uncertainty reduction theory]

General modes and types of communication

 * [|Autocommunication]
 * [|Empathy]
 * [|Computer-mediated communication]
 * [|Health communication]
 * [|Intrapersonal communication]
 * [|Intercultural communication]
 * [|Interpersonal communication]
 * [|Mass communication]
 * [|Non-verbal communication]
 * [|Organizational communication]
 * [|People skills]
 * [|Persuasion]
 * [|Propaganda]
 * [|Public speaking]
 * [|Reading]
 * [|Rhetoric]
 * [|Small-group communication]
 * [|Speech]
 * [|Translation]
 * [|Writing]

General communication terms

 * [|Censorship]
 * [|Community structure]
 * [|Cultural imperialism]
 * [|Democracy]
 * [|Dialectic]
 * [|Digital divide]
 * [|Freedom of the press]
 * [|Freedom of speech]
 * [|Hegemony]
 * [|Identity]
 * [|Imagined community]
 * [|Information society]
 * [|Late capitalism]
 * [|Media imperialism]
 * [|Morpheme]
 * [|Nationalism]
 * [|Phoneme]
 * [|Postmodernity]
 * [|Public sphere]
 * [|Semiotics]
 * [|Social capital]
 * [|Social network]
 * [|Sophist]
 * [|Stereotyping]
 * [|Stigma]
 * [|Syllable]
 * [|Universal service]
 * [|Avatar (virtual reality)]

Communication scholars

 * [|Theodor Adorno]
 * [|Aristotle]
 * [|Roland Barthes]
 * [|Gregory Bateson]
 * [|Walter Benjamin]
 * [|Kenneth Burke]
 * [|Manuel Castells]
 * [|Cicero]
 * [|Noam Chomsky]
 * [|Paul D'Angelo]
 * [|Karl W. Deutsch]
 * [|Walter Fisher]
 * [|George Gerbner]
 * [|G. Thomas Goodnight]
 * [|Jürgen Habermas]
 * [|Max Horkheimer]
 * [|Harold Innis]
 * [|Roman Jakobson]
 * [|Irving Janis]
 * [|Wendell Johnson]
 * [|D. Lawrence Kincaid]
 * [|Walter Lippman]
 * [|Herbert Marcuse]
 * [|George Herbert Mead]
 * [|Marshall McLuhan]
 * [|Desmond Morris]
 * [|Maxwell McCombs]
 * [|Walter J. Ong]
 * [|Vance Packard]
 * [|Charles Sanders Peirce]
 * [|Plato]
 * [|John C. Pollock]
 * [|Neil Postman]
 * [|Nora C. Quebral]
 * [|Quintilian]
 * [|I. A. Richards]
 * [|Everett M. Rogers]
 * [|Wilbur Schramm]
 * [|Claude Shannon]
 * [|Deborah Tannen]
 * [|James W. Tankard, Jr.]
 * [|Warren Weaver]
 * [|Bob Woodward]